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"Don't worship the code." Well put. I've personally witnessed a situation where a startup was paralyzed by code narcissism. The business was asking for features
by snorkel 15y ago
"Don't worship the code." Well put. I've personally witnessed a situation where a startup was paralyzed by code narcissism. The business was asking for features they couldn't get because implementing those features would mean violating the lovely design patterns chosen by the architecture astronauts. Every developer wants to believe that someday their code will be released as a heroic open source project that solves everyone's problems but in the meantime they neglect to solve the problem their customer is having right now.
- ErikRogneby 15y agoI've worked with a software vendor (as a fortune 50 client) where their architecture and product vision was solid but the engineering team was deciding what aspects of both they would implement. Not when they would implement but if they would. Imagine if a carpenter or autoworker did this? The fallout from this was a major contributing factor to their loss of new business.